Best Swami Vikekanand Quotes

“ Take up one idea. Make that
one idea your life; dream of
it; think of it; live on that
idea. Let the brain, the body,
muscles, nerves, every part of
your body be full of that idea,
and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to
success, and this is the way
great spiritual giants are
produced.

“ You have to grow from the
inside out. None can teach
you,
none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but
your own soul.

“ In a conflict between the heart
and the brain, follow your
heart.

“ In a day, when you don't come
across any problems - you can
be sure that you are travelling
in a wrong path

“ The great secret of true
success, of true happiness, is
this: the man or woman who
asks for no return, the
perfectly unselfish person, is
the most successful.

“ All power is within you; you
can do anything and
everything. Believe in that, do
not believe that you are weak;
do not believe that you are
half-crazy lunatics, as most of
us do nowadays. You can do
any thing and everything,
without even the guidance of
any one. Stand up and express
the divinity within you.
Swami Vivekananda, Lectures
from Colombo to Almora

“ The greatest religion is to be
true to your own nature. Have
faith in yourselves.

“ The greatest sin is to think
yourself weak

“ Dare to be free, dare to go as
far as your thought leads, and
dare to carry that out in your
life.

“ Anything that makes weak -
physically, intellectually and
spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda

“ Be not Afraid of anything. You
will do Marvelous work. it is
Fearlessness that brings
Heaven even in a moment.

“ They alone live, who live for
others.

“ arise,awake,stop not until
your goal is achieved.

“ We are what our thoughts
have made us; so take care
about what you think. Words
are secondary. Thoughts live;
they travel far.

“ All love is expansion, all
selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law
of life. He who loves lives, he
who is selfish is dying.
Therefore love for love's sake,
because it is the only law of
life, just as you breathe to
live.

“ You cannot believe in God
until you believe in yourself.

“ Neither seek nor avoid, take
what comes.

“ The fire that warms us can
also consume us; it is not the
fault of the fire.

“ Strength is Life, Weakness is
Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction
is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

“ Comfort is no test of truth.
Truth is often far from being
comfortable.

“ Feel nothing, know nothing, do
nothing, have nothing, give up
all to God, and say utterly,
'Thy will be done.' We only
dream this bondage. Wake up
and let it go.
Swami Vivekananda

“ Ask nothing; want nothing in
return. Give what you have to
give; it will come back to you,
but do not think of that now.
Swami Vivekananda

“ Learn Everything that is Good
from Others, but bring it in,
and in your own way absorb
it; do not become others.
Swami Vivekananda

“ Each work has to pass through
these stages—ridicule,
opposition, and then
acceptance. Those who think
ahead of their time are sure to
be misunderstood.
Swami Vivekananda

“ We are responsible for what
we are, and whatever we wish
ourselves to be, we have the
power to make ourselves. If
what we are now has been the
result of our own past actions,
it certainly follows that
whatever we wish to be in the
future can be produced by our
present actions; so we have to
know how to act.

“ Was there ever a more
horrible blasphemy than the
statement that all the
knowledge of God is confined
to this or that book? How
dare men call God infinite,
and yet try to compress Him
within the covers of a little
book!

“ Do one thing at a Time, and
while doing it put your whole
Soul into it to the exclusion of
all else.
Swami Vivekananda

“ whatever you think that you
will be.
if you think yourself
weak,weak you will be;
if you think yourself
strong,you will be
Swami Vivekananda

“ All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret
of everything.

“ We reap what we sow. We are
the makers of our own fate.
The wind is blowing; those
vessels whose sails are
unfurled
catch it, and go forward on
their way, but those which
have
their sails furled do not catch
the wind. Is that the fault of
the wind?....... We make our
own destiny...